"ME/CFS sufferers are the undeserving sick of our society and our health services" - Michael Sharpe | "M.E. is simply a belief, a belief that one has an illness called M.E." - Simon Wessely (Hosted by Susan Douglas)

Clip taken from "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & M.E." 2016 film by Susan Douglas (Originally called "What about M.E.?)

Featuring patient Ian Lee and Psychologist Joann Lippert phD

Original Film: https://youtu.be/X5bOHqIYkjk?si=70pKWT0rtxFMISCC

Medical Gaslighting

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Medical_gaslighting

It's All In Your Head: True Stories of imaginary illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan in 2015

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_in_Your_Head:_True_Stories_of_Imaginary_Illness

M.E. - WHAT DO WE KNOW?
(Real physical illness or all in the mind?)

1999 and 2005

Michael Sharpe

"Those who cannot be fit into a scheme of objective bodily illness yet refuse to be placed into and accept the stigma of mental illness remain the undeserving sick of our society and our health-service"

Document Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LIIDWl4TMyjdzuXGqHJFWDPWVP1yrlkE/view?usp=drivesdk

Microbes, Mental illness, The Media and M.E.: The Construction of Disease.

1994

Simon Wessely

"M.E. is simply a belief, a belief that one has an illness called M.E."

Document Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-XWCjCHk1wPl-EgCamah3iAMnJsviFY6/view?usp=drivesdk